Jack of Spades | Joel Coen

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Josh O’Connor Will Star In Joel Coen Movie Shooting This Summer

Josh O’Connor will star in director Joel Coen’s new film Jack of Spades, which will shoot this summer on location in Scotland, we can reveal.

Details about Jack of Spades are sparse, but the movie continues British-born O’Connor’s phase of working with American directors. He’s recently been in New York shooting Steven Spielberg’s Untitled Amblin Universal Event Film.

Later Friday, O’Connor will ascend the Cannes Film Festival’s red-carpeted steps for the world premiere of Kelly Reichardt’s art heist movie The Mastermind. The actor was allowed time away from filming Spielberg’s sci-fi movie, which stars Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson.

During the Deadline Disruptors interview, O’Connor teased that after completing his work on Spielberg’s film he would take a short break to tend his garden in England and then work on another film this summer. I kept on pushing and he finally gave up that the production would film “somewhere in Europe” and that it would be made by “ a pretty famous American” director.

He refused to divulge further details but, a key, reliable source confirmed Joel Coen’s name and further investigation revealed the location and title of the film.

Offers have also been made to two British actresses who happen to enjoy great success on both stage and screen to star with O’Connor, but I’m not able to confirm their names here.

Joel Coen’s last solo feature as director was The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the power-hungry Scottish couple. Maybe Macbeth gave him the idea to film Jack of Spades in Scotland?

In a coincidence of sorts, Joel’s brother, Ethan Coen, premieres his new film, Honey Don’t!, out of competition in the Grand Théâtre Lumière at midnight.

Together, the Coen brothers made a string of classic American movies including No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Barton Fink, Miller’s Crossing and Raising Arizona.